Thursday 27 Jun 2013

Thursday Reading: Romans 11:33-36

Key Verse: Romans 11:36
36  For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Devotion:
Have you ever sat on the edge of a cliff and looked down at the depths of the valley below? Or maybe on a really high skyscraper and looked down at the “ant-like” people walking on the payments below? It is only when we take a look at things from a very different perspective that we begin to see the whole picture that we are looking at. Seeing a picture on the screen as opposed to the reality of a situation are two very different things.

Paul knew full well the power and might of God and yet each time he was shown a bit more of God’s might he marvelled a bit more. When Paul looked at the perfect nature of God and His amazing judgement he stood amazed once more. He knew that nobody could ever hope to know what God knows and that nobody would ever be able to think in the same way as God; but he also knew that God continued to uphold His laws throughout history. God is the perfect judge and we do not have to second guess what God can or should do because His judgment is always final and perfect.

There is nothing that we can do that God has not already seen or that He does not already know about. There is nothing that we could ever make, build or do that God does not already know about because we are His creation and not the other way round. Man likes to think that he is the great inventor or that he is original in some way but God is the only original and He alone knows everything.

We need to keep in mind that God is omniscient, omnipotent and beyond reproach. God is the one who first created things and nothing that is would ever have been if it were not for God allowing it in the first place. That may sound like we blame everything on God but that is far from the truth. We cannot blame sin on God because He is without sin. We cannot blame all the bad things on God because we are the ones who allowed sin into our lives to start with. God wants a personal relationship with every one of His creations and that includes us. Animals may start with that personal relationship built in but we have to make the choice of following God first of all.

Points to Ponder:
Do you stand in awe of God?

Do you try to fix God?